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" I remember that day...beleive it or not, it was my first day of 1st grade and we had to be moved to the cafeteria...and it was in the basement of the school. "

" I was living just north of Merna at the time and remember the disbelief when we heard the news as it was sunny and a beautiful day from where we were. Also, I remember that though the church was destroyed, the alter was unscratched. Doesn't the old Jumer's hotel have the confessional on display or use it as a telephone booth? "

" I remember the tap well. I used to visit when I was a kid with my dad - back in the 70's. "Wild Bill" as one post said would pull a handful of quarters out of the pool table and I give them to me and I would play Frogger. Then when we were leaving, Bill would get a paper bag and fill it with candy (actually I got to pick). Of course the fact that he was my Grandpa helped!!!!! We used to live in a little house just east of the tap that the Towanda Fire Dept. burned down for "practice". Can't remember if that was before or after the tornado. Man, that was a long time ago. "

" Merna Tap; "Wild Bill", Fran, a cold beer and a good sammitch....Those were the days, my friend. "

" "History Buff": The Merna Tap. A house of prostitution. Why were we never told? "

" History tells other stories about the old Merna Tap that was spared. About it being a party house and a house of prostituion back during the Railroad heydays. "

" it well as i worked at the Bloomington Post office and were told to go to the shelter. the sky to the east was a green color. "

" The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was also selective in its destruction, sparing several distilleries, and giving rise to some poesy: If, as it's said, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Then why'd He knock the churches down, But spare Hotaling's whiskey? "